Operational performance for restaurants, cafes, bars and gastropubs

It has never been more important to critically assess which aspects of your visitor attraction can function profitably and where to drive efficiencies. To help you with this Fáilte Ireland and Tourism NI have developed a Capacity and Commercial Impact Calculator.

Use of the Calculator will help you determine:

• The effect of reduced capacity in your various service offerings (e.g. breakfast, lunch, dinner, take-away, outside catering, cookery classes, etc.).
• How to maximise the trading performance of each of your service offerings, reducing the potential for losses during the difficult transition period.
• The feasibility (revenue and costs) of new services you introduce (e.g. use of new areas inside or outside your premises for serving food, cook-at-home offerings, new boxed breakfast take away option, etc.).
• Estimation of required sales to breakeven and the estimated number of weeks required to recover your start-up costs.
• Expected performance by day and week for all areas, allowing a high level comparison of:
  • Expected year on year performance.
  • Performance with previous years.